Response surface and neural network techniques for rocket engine injector optimization

35th Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Shyy, Wei ^a   Tucker, P Kevin ^b   Vaidyanathan, Rajkumar ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; DESIGN; ENGINES; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; POLYNOMIALS; PROPULSION; ROCKET ENGINES; ROCKETS;

DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION; DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; NEURAL NETWORK TECHNIQUES; QUADRATIC POLYNOMIAL; RADIAL BASIS NEURAL NETWORKS; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY; SEMI-EMPIRICAL MODELING;

SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 84963829872     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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